Buying Famous Brands of Clothes and Cars

Now a day many people want to buy famous brands of clothes, cars and other items. What are the reasons for this? Do you think it is a positive and a negative development?

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Essay · 545 words · 4 paragraphs · 13 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band6.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response develops reasons for buying branded products and maintains a negative judgement, with extended examples. However, its repeated focus on foreign brands narrows the question, since famous brands can also be domestic. Some conclusions about local business and consumer behaviour need qualification. Recurring collocational and grammatical errors further reduce precision despite generally clear progression.

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Task Response

The essay explains accessibility and promotion and maintains a clear negative position. However, it repeatedly treats famous brands as foreign or international brands, which narrows the question unnecessarily. Several examples support a global-versus-local argument more directly than the broader issue of brand popularity.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organized in logical paragraphs with clear progression throughout, though some linking is mechanical and paragraph transitions occasionally feel abrupt.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

There is an adequate range of vocabulary for the topic, including items like 'conglomerates' and 'flaunting,' but repeated awkward collocations and word-choice errors such as 'produces' and 'mad behind these brands' reduce precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex sentence forms is used with some flexibility, yet frequent errors in agreement, tense, and relative clause construction, while rarely blocking meaning, are noticeable across the response.

6.0

What to work on next

Keep the discussion focused on famous brands, whether domestic or foreign, and explain how each example supports that scope. Then repair collocations such as 'path to rich to customer’s minds' and check agreement in the opening paragraph.

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